pakistanis have a narrative that they use us and discard us. use us against the russians in the 1980s, toss us because because of nuclear proliferation in 1990. they use us in the war after 9/11, but after 20 # 14, they are going to go away. you can count on it. pakistanis think americans are hard wired to desert them. this set of stereotypes is intellectually lazy and pernicious. a way to get out of this is haqqani, my counterpart, was the ambassador here, suggest the, time for a divorce, and others who said it's time for containment, push it away. those two are not reasonable alternatives. remaining engaged # with pakistan, there's no alternative to it, but i would argue that having a focus simply on a bilateral relationship is something that's a problem for us. we have to break out of this bilateralism, if you will, the sterile debate, and look at the issues that have to do with pakistan's relationship to india, the sequence of events that take place after 2014 when the americans focus, again, as steve mentioned, when the american focus beco